Ezekiel 42:20

He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
measured	מְדָד֗וֹ me.da.Do	H4058	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
four	לְאַרְבַּ֨ע le.'ar.Ba'	H702	four · preposition + cardinal number, both genders singular construct
sides	רוּח֜וֹת ru.Chot	H7307	wind · noun, common feminine plural absolute
wall	ח֤וֹמָה Cho.mah	H2346	a wall of protection · noun, common feminine singular absolute
about	סָבִ֣יב sa.Viv	H5439	(as noun) a circle · noun, common both genders singular absolute
five	חֲמֵ֣שׁ cha.Mesh	H2568	five · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
hundred	מֵא֔וֹת me.'ot	H3967	a hundred · cardinal number, feminine plural absolute
long	אֹ֚רֶךְ 'O.rekh	H753	length · noun, common masculine singular absolute
five	חֲמֵ֣שׁ cha.Mesh	H2568	five · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
hundred	מֵא֑וֹת me.'ot	H3967	a hundred · cardinal number, feminine plural absolute
broad	וְרֹ֖חַב ve.Ro.chav	H7341	width (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
separation	לְהַבְדִּ֕יל le.hav.Dil	H914	to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct
sanctuary	הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ ha.Ko.desh	H6944	a sacred place or thing · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
place	לְחֹֽל le.Chol	H2455	properly · preposition + adjective, masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Ezekiel 45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round ab…
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have…
Ezekiel 40:5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an han…
Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel 48:15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dw…
Zechariah 2:5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy ga…
Leviticus 10:10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 42:15–end

We have attended the measuring of this mystical temple and are now to see how far the holy ground on which we tread extends; and that also is here measured, and found to take in a great compass. Observe, 1. What the dimensions of it were. It extended each way 500 reeds (Eze 42:16-19), each reed above three yards and a half, so that it reached every way about an English measured mile, which, the ground lying square, was above four miles round. Thus large were the suburbs (as I may call them) of this mystical temple, signifying the great extent of the church in gospel-times, when all nations should be discipled and the kingdoms of the world made Christ's kingdoms. Room should be made in God's…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 42:20

wall . . . separation between . . . sanctuary and . . . profane--No longer shall the wall of partition be to separate the Jew and the Gentile (Eph 2:14), but to separate the sacred from the profane. The lowness of it renders it unfit for the purpose of defense (the object of the wall, Rev 21:12). But its square form (as in the city, Rev 21:16) is the emblem of the kingdom that cannot be shaken (Heb 12:28), resting on prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ being the chief corner-stone. Everything was now ready for His reception. As the Shekinah glory was the peculiar distinction of the old temple, so it was to be in the new in a degree as much more transcendent as the proportions of the new exc…

Read the whole note in the console

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 42:20

It had a wall round about - to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place - The holy place was that which was consecrated to the Lord; into which no heathen, nor stranger, nor any in a state of impurity, might enter. The profane place was that in which men, women, Gentiles, pure or impure might be admitted. Josephus says War, lib. vi., c. 14, that in his time there was a wall built before the entrance three cubits high, on which there were posts fixed at certain distances, with inscriptions on them in Latin and Greek, containing the laws which enjoined purity on those that entered; and forbidding all strangers to enter, on pain of death. See Calmet.

Dictionary and topics

Weights And Measures — A. WEIGHTS.—The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubtful points. All ancient Greek systems of weight were derived, either…
Sanctuary · The Holy Place in the temple — The Holy Place in the temple

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 42:20

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 42:15–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 42:20

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 42:20

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 42:20

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 42:15–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 42:20

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 42:20

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Ezekiel 42:20

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 42:15–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 42:16-20

Rashi on Ezekiel 42:20